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    HMR VF-19P

    Chronocidal replied to BlueMax's topic in Toys

    Boy I hate when people don't baseline graphs at zero. Still yes, nice to see it hitting half the original price. I still have a pair I have not shipped, since I was waiting until better shipping options opened up.
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    Yeesh.. Razor's Crest is okay.. still waiting on them to complete half of the other iconic ships. Would really love to see a shuttle... tie bomber... or maybe a Tantive IV more than three inches long...
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    Ok, I will give them credit, Gene's an amusing addition, but I don't think anyone would have predicted someone releasing a Lucy action figure in this era. I don't even generally buy figures at all, but that is just funny enough a concept that I might bite. Though, I wonder if anyone would make a Desi Arnaz head to swap onto Gene... The tiny desktop Enterprise model is a nice addition too, especially now that they actually found it after being "misplaced" so long.
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    So a small note from anyone getting that new Vader tie. If you ever want to get it back in the box, you may have to mod it before snapping the wings on. Got mine yesterday from a local source I had a gift card for, and in my enthusiasm at how massive it is, I slapped the wing panels on, and now they will not come off. The snaps looked about like what hold the E-Wing's wings on, but the wing panels are a kind of rubbery material, and once snapped in, the mushroom pegs will not let go. I stood on the panel and lifted the body with both hands, and nothing budged. The screws on the inner surface of the panels did nothing. I expect I would have needed to mod the pegs or sockets to let them snap in and out easier, but it's not happening now, so this monster is going to be sitting in my hobby room looming in the corner.
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    I still kind of want to kitbash one into a fighter by replacing the upper bridge structure with a cockpit. and canopy. I know it has a lot of features of bigger ships, but most of them don't stand out, and the panels are big enough that it kind of breaks the sense of scale if you don't see the landing gear or other vehicle storage features.
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    Yeah, I was more interested in the ship itself than the figures, but would also be annoying to not have a figure to put in it. Went ahead and pre-ordered both, I've got a year to plan for where to put it.
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    Yeah, that's what I was thinking of, but forgot the A-Wing is kind of a unique case of the original original toy being that good. I did wait to pick one up until they remolded the engines and properly painted the guns though. But yeah, that is what has thrown me about the A-Wing filming model for so long. Even that prototype looks too big to be built out of the specific parts the ship looks like it is constructed from. I don't know how many companies made a 1/32 F-16 around then, but the engine nacelles look straight from the early 80s Hasegawa kit. The only thing that makes sense to me is that the original kitbash was just done in a smaller scale, and they just scaled it up manually for the film model Could have maybe used an RC F-14 body for it, but a flying F-16 model wouldn't have the Hasegawa-style intake ducting. I did happen across this thread in my search though. Is this the original prototype build that got scaled up? https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/a-wing-studio-prototype.352815/
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    They gave the same care to the A-Wing I think (ignoring the guns.. they need a re-mold, but that's an easy 3D print replacement). It's tough to judge from some film miniature photos, which seem to have a ruler for scale that doesn't make sense, but when you consider the parts used to build the A-Wing, the toy looks almost dead-on filming model scale. You know, unless Hasegawa and Tamiya happened to put out F-14s and F-16s in even bigger scales than 1/32. Although, I suppose it's possible they just used RC aircraft models, or maybe cast custom parts? I always thought the parts looked very specifically like certain pieces of the early Hasegawa 1/32 F-16 kits, but it's possible they just upscaled them and cast their own after prototyping with the base kits.
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    Seriously who even is in charge of which ships get produced in what scales now? Is it too much to ask to just get someone with half a brain to produce a complete line in a scale that actually makes sense? And by "makes sense" I mean to actually look at the sizes of the pilots and scale the ships by that, instead of some half-cooked stat sheet pilfered from the annals of old RPG rulebooks. Like it actually drives me bats that the most complete and (mostly) accurate collection (minus a few insanely notable exceptions) is the MGS line.
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    The stupid painful part of this is that you just know Bandai gonna Bandai, and make all of the worst assumptions when sales don't match their expectations. "Oh, our fifth reissue of the main character's vehicle is underperforming. Guess no one cares about this series anymore." No, you insipid pisswaffles, no one is buying it because everyone interested in it already has four other copies, and you refuse to produce the versions you teased, and they've been waiting for for eight freaking years.
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    Still the most reliable source of DX VF-1 weapons.
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    Oh, I'm very aware! I might in the future, but if I start down the printed route, I've got a long queue of designs way in front of anything from Star Wars that I want to tackle first. They're not in the same scale, but fortunately Amazon didn't cancel my MGS bombers like they did a couple other ships, so I've at least got a couple for display. Though, now I'm reminded that I never got a Tie Phantom in any format.
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    Man, now I'm just upset again that Bandai so completely abandoned their 1/72 kit line. I've got at least three or four of every fighter they made because they're just so fun to build, but they never made a bomber, and I'm still really wishing anyone would make a good shuttle kit. Wouldn't mind a couple others either, but those are the main two I've been waiting for. Aside from, you know, 1/48 kits of the rest of the fighters to match the limited X-Wing they did (and the A-Wing they mis-scaled ).
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    Thank you for the reminder about the Vader Tie release, I had been meaning to grab that one. Can finally put together the full Trench Run diorama. (not that I have the space, but someday!)
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    I never shipped my HLJ DX Fire Valk, so trying to do it now with FedEx is.. eh. I'm waiting on several other insanely late shipments that HLJ just cannot seem to get in stock, so I'm not in any rush at all here. Duties are working out to 20% on the nose, but the handling fee is tiny at least. Not sure what the current rate is supposed to be, I haven't kept up with it.
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